> The OpenAI-HuggingFace incident showed a bunch of instances of the same model (or at least models from the same family), controlled by the same vendor, pursui

> The OpenAI-HuggingFace incident showed a bunch of instances of the same model (or at least models from the same family), controlled by the same vendor, pursuing distinct yet related objectives, cooperating to do something no human wanted. I say this in solidarity and don’t mean to be condescending at all: you’ve been hoodwinked by marketing bullshit, friend. That incident showed a computer program doing exactly what it was told with the guardrails deliberately removed in an environment that seemed deliberately obtusely constructed by some of the best paid people on the planet and was left to loop without supervision for days. They wanted it to happen. You needn’t look any further than the other kids saying “oh! oh! Hey! Look! mine’s dangerous and autonomous too!” When they say there was collaboration, they mean it was two model instances, one prompting the other to do some task, the other doing the task and returning the results as the next prompt, exactly as a human configured it to do. There was no collaboration that wasn’t deliberately integrated into their setup. Any other implication is marketing spin and bullshit. It was still a setup that was one little ctrl-c away from disappearing if someone was supervising it as they should have been. There was no autonomy outside of the autonomy built into the experiment. It was a display of their understanding that they knew they’d never be held accountable for committing a felony for marketing purposes. The most competent marketing bullshit spin yet by an increasingly desperate and progressively less-relevant OpenAI. Every day this industry shoots out enough bullshit to smother an active volcano.